Monday, 3 March 2014

Two sides to every coin.....


The second side to a story is something many of us will have a selective perception of, unwitting or not we all love our own point of view and the sound of our own voices. However, we must all at times let the little voices speak and be heard and understood and taken on board for the benefit of all.

Sustainablity is fancy pantsy new Governemnt speak for annoying the hell out of me!

To sustain is to

English definition of “sustain”


sustain

verb [T] (CONTINUE) /səˈsteɪn/

C2 to cause or allow something to continue for a period of time: The economy looks set to sustain its growth into next year. He seems to find it difficult to sustain relationships with women.
 
(Cambridge Dictionary online retrieved 03/03/2014)
 
It is not to...........be environmentally aware, to use less paper, or to own an ipad or to ride a bike.
 
If I choose to be environmentally conscious I would probably not own any of those things on the first place, and would certainly not use a squillion electronic devices to 'make things grenner' when I could just get off my bum and do them myself instead.
 
The sustainble ordering of shopping online via my brand new energy efficient laptop running on windmill generated electricity, using electronic money transfer, waiting for the carbon emmision controlled van to deliver it to me, is NOT being green! Getting up and WALKING to the shop is!
 

 
Our electronic world is literally eating away at our real life 'solid' world, the destruction of land to produce an ephemeral web of pornography, chit chat and pictures of the world it is destroying!!